(25-08-2016 12:13 AM)RogueWarrior Wrote: If you think about, it might have happened that way.
Apes have 24 pairs of chromosomes but humans have 23 pairs.
And yet we share a common ancestor.

The first 23 chromosome pair hominids probably came from the same family.
I doubt a 23 and 24 chromosome pairing would successfully breed so likely brother and sister.

Nah. The "lost" chromosome is just a fusion of two chromosomes into a single double-chromosome, resulting in our chromosome #2 (ranked by overall size).

A horse has 32 chromosome pairs and a donkey has 31, and they breed just fine. However, unlike ours, their chromosomes don't line up very well, resulting in sterility in the offspring. Having mismatched numbers of chromosomes can cause sterility problems, but it is not necessarily so.

However, because of severe "genetic bottlenecks" in our past, when the total number of surviving pre-humans and humans on the earth was very low, the tribes would likely have been small enough that a high degree of inbreeding was going on, so your idea is not without merit.

And on that note, I'd like to present my favorite "make religionists twitch" argument from genetics:

"Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?" - E. O. Wilson

Is that the best he could do? I'd be honored to be "in bed with" those names.

And WTF is Jim Jones doing on there, given that he called his church "The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ" and referred to himself as Father, like a priest? I can't think of a person more synonymous with religion.

I had to look up Than Shwe, who is the general behind the military junta in Myanmar. But he does appear to be an atheist (he's apparently some form of communist, so...) and quite a dickhead. But this dude was seriously stretching.

"Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?" - E. O. Wilson

Is that the best he could do? I'd be honored to be "in bed with" those names.

And WTF is Jim Jones doing on there, given that he called his church "The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ" and referred to himself as Father, like a priest? I can't think of a person more synonymous with religion.

I had to look up Than Shwe, who is the general behind the military junta in Myanmar. But he does appear to be an atheist (he's apparently some form of communist, so...) and quite a dickhead. But this dude was seriously stretching.

Flirt with radical atheism? Make sure you bring protection??? But then radical atheism won't have my baby?

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(06-02-2014 03:47 PM)Momsurroundedbyboys Wrote: And I'm giving myself a conclusion again from all the facepalming.

Is it just regular atheism, a la Malkovich and Dawkins, like he thinks all of us are some kind of secular jihadis?

Or is it just a list of people who do things he disagrees with (and with which most of us also disagree, like say mass murder), from the brutal tyrants who set themselves up as gods to the dastardly evil of Kinsey, who dared to scientifically study sexuality for the first time?

And I'm just dying to know what he thinks John Malkovich did that's so bad.

"Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?" - E. O. Wilson

Is that the best he could do? I'd be honored to be "in bed with" those names.

And WTF is Jim Jones doing on there, given that he called his church "The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ" and referred to himself as Father, like a priest? I can't think of a person more synonymous with religion.

I had to look up Than Shwe, who is the general behind the military junta in Myanmar. But he does appear to be an atheist (he's apparently some form of communist, so...) and quite a dickhead. But this dude was seriously stretching.

I'm gonna take a page out of the christian handbook and say that those aren't "real" atheists.